Tonsillitis
Anna Y. Zolotnitskaya
<p>Anna Zolotnitskaya, MD, is Medical Director, Pediatric Dialysis at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Zolotnitskaya’s clinical focus is on pediatric dialysis and pediatric renal transplantation. She leads a multidisciplinary dialysis team that provides patient-centered, evidence-based care for children and young adults with end-stage kidney disease. </p><p>After obtaining her Doctor of Medicine at St. Petersburg Pediatric Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1983, Dr. Zolotnitskaya completed her pediatrics internship at the same institution in 1984. She remained there to complete her pediatrics residency in 1989, before completing an additional pediatrics residency at Soroka Medical Center in Beer-Sheva, Israel, in 1994. Following this, Dr. Zolotnitskaya completed a pediatric nephrology fellowship at Montefiore Einstein in 1998, followed by an additional pediatrics residency at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in 2001. </p><p>Dr. Zolotnitskaya has been principal investigator and co-investigator in clinical trials that investigate medications employed for the care of children with advanced chronic kidney disease. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and abstracts, and she has given several invited presentations. She is also a reviewer for the <em>Journal of Pediatrics: Clinical Practice</em>. </p><p>Dr. Zolotnitskaya is board certified by the American Board of Pediatric Nephrology, the American Board of Pediatrics and the Israeli Board of Pediatrics. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology.
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Changcheng Zhu
Thoracic pathology, Head & Neck Pathology, Gynecological Pathology and Lung Transplant Pathology<br /><quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Lung cancer<br />
Christina J. Yang
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: black;">Dr. Yang treats common pediatric otolaryngology problems including otitis media, obstructive sleep apnea, and tonsillitis. She underwent specialized fellowship training in the diagnosis and treatment of airway and swallowing disorders and also has a special interest in tracheostomy care and education.</span></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: black;">Education:</span></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span>Clinical fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: black;">R<span>esidency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery: Tulane University School of Medicine </span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: black;">Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Honors Program in Medical Education (HPME))</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Yang has been on faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Montefiore Medical Center / the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore since 2015, focusing her efforts on quality improvement and multidisciplinary care for complex children including neonates and those with airway and swallowing issues. She is active in national societies including the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) and the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology (ASPO).</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: black;">Languages: English. Limited French and Mandarin Chinese.</span></span></span></div>
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Dr. Yang’s clinical interests include airway and swallowing disorders in children, endoscopic and open airway reconstruction and tracheotomy.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Dr. Yang’s research focuses on the application of healthcare simulation to medical education, patient safety, quality improvement and implementation science. <quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Christina J. Yang, MD, is Director, Pediatric Dysphagia Program; Associate Director, Pediatric Otolaryngology Quality Assurance and Assistant Professor at Montefiore-Einstein. Dr. Yang’s clinical interests include airway and swallowing disorders in children, endoscopic and open airway reconstruction and tracheotomy.</p><p>A graduate of Northwestern University, Dr. Yang received her Bachelor of Arts in 2004, and continued at the institution’s Feinberg School of Medicine, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 2008. She began her postdoctoral education at Tulane University School of Medicine, completing her residency in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery in 2013. She then pursued a fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, completing it in 2015.</p><p>Dr. Yang’s research focuses on the application of healthcare simulation to medical education, patient safety, quality improvement and implementation science. Her work has been published in a number of journals and book chapters, and presented internationally. She is also a reviewer for the <em>International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, The Laryngoscope and the Journal of Otology</em>.</p><p>Dr. Yang is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology and a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology and the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.</p>
Alanna M. Windsor
Kathleen D. Whitney
Yanhua Wang
<p><strong>Areas of Research</strong>: Primary research areas are focused on identifying distinctive immunologic and molecular genetic diagnostic and prognostic markers of hematologic neoplasms.</p>
<p><strong>Professional Interests:</strong> Pathological diagnosis of hematopoietic abnormalities, including mature and immature lymphoma/leukemia; myeloproliferative/dysplastic myeloid neoplasms, plasma cell proliferative disorder and other hematological related abnormalities using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, cytogentic/FISH and molecular diagnostic tools.</p>
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<p><strong>Selected Recent Publications:</strong></p>
<p><strong> 1.</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Yanghua Wang<sup>1</sup></strong>, Adam Gersten<sup>1</sup>, Susana Moleirinho<sup>2,3</sup>, Frank J. Gunn-Moore<sup>2</sup>, Paul A. Reynolds<sup>3</sup>, Michael B. Prystowsky<sup>1 </sup> Fibroblasts in Head Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Associated with Peri-neural Invasion Have High Level Nuclear Yap Expression Academic Pathology, 2015<strong>2. </strong></p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> Jose G.M. Arango, Shlomit Goldberg-Stein, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong> Extranodal Rosai-Dorfman disease: Clinico-pathologic series of thirteen cases and review of the literature American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2016; 0:1-11</p>
<p><strong>3. </strong>Monica Zell,*, Amer Assal,*, Olga Derman, Noah Kornblum, Ramakrishna Battini, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, Deepa M. Narasimhulu, Ioannis Mantzaris, Aditi Shastri, Amit Verma, Hilda Ye, IraBraunschweig, Murali Janakiram Adult T-Cell leukemia/lymphoma in the Caribbean cohort is adistinct clinical entity with dismal response to conventional chemotherapy Oncotarget, June 2016<strong> <strong>DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10223</strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>4. </strong>Goel S, Hall J, Pradhan K, Hirsch C, Przychodzen B, Shastri A, Mantzaris I, Janakiram M, Battini R, Kornblum N, Derman O, Gritsman K, Al-Hafidh J, <strong>Wang Y</strong>, Halmos B, Steidl U, Maciejewski JP, Braunschweig I, Verma A. High prevalence and allele burden-independent prognostic importance of p53 mutations in an inner-city MDS/AML cohort. Leukemia. 2016 Apr 29. doi: 10.1038/leu.2016.74. [Epub ahead of print]</p>
<p><strong>5. </strong>Monica Zell, Amer Assal, Olga Derman, Noah Kornblum, Ramakrishna Battini,<strong> Yanhua Wang</strong>, Deepa M. Narasimhulu, Ioannis Mantzaris, Aditi Shastri, Amit Verma, Hilda Ye, Ira Braunschweig, Murali Janakiram Adult T-Cell leukemia/lymphoma in the Caribbean cohort is a distinct clinical entity with dismal response to conventional chemotherapy. Oncotarget, Advance Publications 2016</p>
<p><strong>6. </strong> <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, Samer Khader, Yonatan Mehlman, Yungtai Lo, Joseph Albanese, Howard Ratech Loss of αII and βIII Spectrin Isoforms in Body Fluids is Associated with Metastasis. Advances in Cytology & Pathology, Volume 2 Issue 1 – 2017</p>
<p><strong>7. </strong>Etan Marks, Yang Shi, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong> CD117 (KIT) Is A Useful Marker in The Diagnosis of Plasmablastic Plasma Cell Myeloma, Histopathology, 2017, <strong>DOI:</strong><strong> </strong>10.1111/his.13196</p>
<p><strong>8. </strong>Murali Janakiram , Amit Verma, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, Anjali Budhathoki, Jaime Suarez Londono, Irina Murakhovskaya, Ira Braunschweig & Caterina P.Minniti Accelerated leukemic transformation after haploidentical transplantation for hydroxyurea-treated sickle cell disease, Leukemia & Lymphoma, DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2017.1324158</p>
<p><strong>9. </strong>Zhonghua Li, M.D., Ph.D., John G. Pizzolo, B.S., <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, M.D., Ph.D.Utility of Cytocentrifugation Slides in the Flow Cytometry Laboratory: a Single Institution experience, Clinical Pathology Diangosis, Journal of Hematopathology, online, 2017</p>
<p><strong>10. </strong>Michael J. Licata, MD<sup>1</sup>, Murali Janakiram, MD<sup>2</sup>, Yanan Fang, MD<sup>1</sup>, Urvi A. Shah, MD<sup>2</sup>, Amit Verma, MD<sup>2</sup> and <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, MD Diagnostic Challenges of Western Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma with Unusual Clinical Presentation - Clinical, Histological and Immunophenotypic Analysis, Leukemia & Lymphoma, 2018 VOL. 59, NO. 5, 1188–1194 https://doi.org/10.1080/10428194.2017.1365862</p>
<p><strong>11. </strong>Evan Himchak, Etan Marks, Yang Shi, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, Did I miss one? Discovering Hidden Co-existing Hematological with Non-Hematological Malignancies, A Single Institutional Review of 100 Collision Tumors, <a title="International journal of surgical pathology." href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29320898">Int J Surg Pathol.</a> 2018 Jan 1:1066896917752862. doi: 10.1177/1066896917752862. [Epub ahead of print]</p>
<p><strong>12. </strong>Jesus Anampa, Tamanna Haque, Irina Murakhovskaya, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong>, Kimo Bachiashvili, Cristian Papazoglu, Kith Pradhan, Ulrich G. Steidl, Joseph A. Sparano, Amit Verma<sup> </sup>Macrocytosis And Dysplastic Anemia Is Associated With The Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4/6 Inhibitor Palbociclib In Metastatic Breast Cancer, Haematologica , Published Ahead of Print on November 30, 2017, as doi:10.3324/haematol.2017.181941</p>
<p><strong>13. </strong>Shaomin Hu, James Szymanski, Zeina Khairy, Yungtai Lo, <strong>Yanhua Wang</strong> Breast pathology and mammography BI-RADS category correlation study – A single institute experience Annals of Diagnostic Pathology 35 (2018) 11-15</p>
<p><strong>14. </strong>Shah UA, Chung EY, Giricz O, Pradhan K, Kataoka K, Gordon-Mitchell S, Bhagat TD, Mai Y, Wei Y, Ishida E, Choudhary GS, Joseph A, Rice R, Gitego N, Parrish C, Bartenstein M, Goel S, Mantzaris I, Shastri A, Derman O, Binder A, Gritsman K, Kornblum N, Braunschweig I, Bhagat C, Hall J, Graber A, Ratner L, <strong>Wang Y, </strong>Ogawa S, Verma A, Ye BH, Janakiram M. North American ATLL has a distinct mutational and transcriptional profile and responds to epigenetic therapies. Blood. 2018 Oct 4;132(14):1507-1518. doi: 10.1182/blood-2018-01-824607. Epub 2018 Aug 13.</p>
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Esperanza Villanueva-Siles
Ana Y. Valdivia
<p>Ana Y. Valdivia, MD, is an attending physician at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Diagnostic Radiology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Valdivia’s clinical focus involves all aspects of nuclear medicine, with a particular focus on positron emission tomography–computed tomography (PET-CT).</p><p>After receiving her Bachelor of Science in chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico in 1990, Dr. Valdivia attended Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 1994. She completed her internal medicine residency at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 1997, followed by her nuclear medicine residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in 1999.</p><p>Dr. Valdivia’s research involves PET-CT, frequently focusing on brain imaging. She has shared her research through peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, abstracts, exhibits, and oral and poster presentations. She is also an invited reviewer for the International Journal of Surgery.</p><p>Dr. Valdivia is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Nuclear Medicine. She is a member of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and the American College of Radiology.</p>